Former Polish president tours Lincoln Museum

SPRINGFIELD — The man who helped end Communist control of Poland toured a museum dedicated to the president who helped end slavery in America.

Nobel Peace Prize-winner Lech Walesa visited the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum on Friday. The former Polish president had accepted the 2012 Lincoln Leadership Prize in Chicago a day earlier.

Carla Knorowski of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation says there are strong parallels between the two men, who fought tyranny and oppression in their home nations. She says Walesa was humbled to be compared to Lincoln.

The museum is offering an exhibit on Walesa's role as Poland's first democratically elected leader after World War II. It runs until March 5.